FEATURED ARTICLESThe Product Backlog Boardby Roman Pichler, Pichler Consulting
How come product owners and teams struggle to use the product backlog effectively? One of the reasons lies in the linear nature of a traditional product backlog: It is a list of "features, functions, technologies, enhancements, and bug fixes," as "Agile Software Development with Scrum" states. Such a list works well for creating a simple product. But it can be inappropriate for a more ambitious one. Read more...

Dreaming Of A Business Analyst Career: A Personal Journey From QA To BAby Lauren Elkins, IT BSA, ARUP Laboratories
We BA's are occasionally asked, "What do you do?" I try to make a joke out of this innocent question by replying, "Well, what would YOU do with English and writing degrees? I'm a Business Analyst of course." People don’t laugh. It's not because they don't want to make fun of an English major, it's because they don't have a clue what a Business Analyst does. You can't laugh at a joke if you don't get the punch line.Read more...

The Decision Model: Breaking Barriers in Real-World Projectsby Larry Goldberg & Barbara von Halle, KPI LLC
The number of successes with The Decision Model is escalating. Organizations are using The Decision Model to solve a range of business challenges and opportunities including some we did not expect. Therefore, this month we summarize three real world projects to illustrate how organizations are using decision models and how quickly project teams are delivering them.Read more...

Managing Requirements from a BA or an Enterprise Architect perspective using BABOK and/or TOGAFby Serge Thorn, CIO of Architecting the Enterprise
Many Business Analysts are using the IIBA’s BABOK which contains information about a Requirements Management process, from identifying organizational situations that give cause to a project, through to starting the requirements gathering process, to delivering a solution to the business or a client. TOGAF 9 from an Enterprise Architecture viewpoint also provides some techniques to gather requirements to equally deliver business solutions. This article illustrates the two processes, defines the mapping between the two approaches and identifies gaps in each.Read more...

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